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$300 and a prewar promise save famed archaeological sites.
Byline: Bill Glauber
HILLAH, Iraq _ Three days before war broke out, Wathiq Hindo of Chicago drove an hour south of Baghdad to this dusty plain pocked with mounds and layered with history buried beneath the chalky soil.
Hindo was on a mission to strike a deal with a local tribal leader to protect some of the most prized archeological digs in the world.
All it would take was $300 and the promise of an assault rifle.
On Friday, Hindo returned to the area of the ancient Mesopotamian city Kish to see if the site and nearby compound for archeologists were still intact.
He was pleasantly surprised. Nothing was missing and little was disturbed. Looters tried to enter the compound but were turned away by eight guards.
"I was afraid looting might happen, that the guards could not resist the mobs or put up a fight," said Hindo, who has business ties in his native Iraq and America.
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